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Los Angeles, California 90095-1575

Abstract: Cornelius Cole (1822-1924) practiced law in San Francisco (1850) before relocating to Sacramento in 1851 where he served as
the district attorney of Sacramento City and County (1859-62). He was later elected as a Union Republican to the thirty-eighth
Congress (1863-65), and as a Republican to the U.S. Senate (1867-73) where he served as the chairman for the Committee on
Appropriations (Forty-second Congress). The collection consists of correspondence, business papers, clippings, photographs,
scrap books, diaries, various writings by Cornelius and Olive Cole, and family memorabilia concerning the public and private
career of Cornelius Cole and his family. The papers cover more than a century of American history including California politics,
government and history, life in the Southwest, Civil War campaigns, railroads, and the crystallization of the new Republican
party in Northern California.

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Cornelius Cole was born in Lodi, Seneca County, New York, September 17, 1822; graduated Wesleyan University, 1847; studied
law and was admitted to the bar in Auburn, New York, 1848; moved to California, 1849; after working a year in the gold mines,
began the practice of law in San Francisco, 1850; moved to Sacramento, 1851; served as district attorney of Sacramento City
and County, 1859-62; moved to Santa Cruz in 1862; commissioned as a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War, 1863;
elected Union Republican to the thirty-eighth Congress (1863-65); elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate (1867-73); chairman,
Committee on Appropriations (Forty-second Congress); resumed his law practice; moved to Colegrove, Los Angeles County, California,
and retired from active practice, 1880; member Pioneer Society of California; died in Hollywood, California, November 3, 1924.

Biographical Narrative

It is not unusual for the papers of a man in public life to stand as a substantial piece of the history of his nation. But
it is a rare thing for a collection of such papers to sweep across more than a century of that history and to illustrate and
elucidate the varied events and personalities which come to life in the papers of Cornelius Cole and his family. They begin
with the noise and emotions of political battles in New York State in the 1840s, and the clashing ambitions at the diggings
in California. For Cole, the papers close with the anxiety and despair of the years just after the first World War; but the
family papers continue the story into the midst of the world struggle that arose out of those years. During the greater part
of this span of time, Cole was busily participating in, and for a decade, helping to mold the history of the United States.

A sense of immediacy permeates the papers. In the 1850s he sails via Panama to the lure of the California mines, edits a newspaper
in Sacramento, consults with Collis P. Huntington and Leland Stanford there, and assists in the crystallization of the new
Republican party in northern California. Elected to Congress in 1862, he exchanges the friendships of his home and family
in Santa Cruz for the fevered excitement of Washington, D.C. in the midst of Civil War. There he talks with Grant and Lincoln,
and hears the President speak at Gettysburg. His energy and ability secure his election as Senator from California in 1867.
He witnesses the expulsion of Andrew Johnson and his followers, and the subsequent triumph of Grant and Radical Reconstruction.
The Senator is a frequent visitor to the White House, not only for the brilliant receptions, but in the morning hours when
the business of the administration is decided upon. He is a member of the inner circle not only because of his friendship
with the President and his advisors. Cole is the Senator from California, now for the first time, a state of primary political
importance in the councils of the nation. There is more to its name than the clink of gold. For the nation and therefore for
the party and men who run the nation, it means mounting population, shipping, agriculture, and the network of railroads that
pervades the political as well as the physical structure of the state. It is a time when Californians are seriously considered
for places in the Cabinets of several Presidents; Cole's name is mentioned several times in this connection. When political
pressures from the forces which control the state prevent the renomination of Cole, he does not withdraw from the public scene.
His legal ability and useful political contacts make him a good choice for the litigants involved
in the settlement of the
Alabama claims. And while he stays on in Washington, D.C. in the late 1870s, he continues his friendships with men whose names bear
the history of those years.

Even when he returns to his new home near Los Angeles in the 1880s, his experienced and critical mind keeps his name prominent
in his community and his state. In California old friends call on him: the Grants, General Sherman and his wife, and the John
A. Logans. Traveling to Washington, D.C., he meets President Arthur. In the 1890s, he again returns to the Capital which is
now so different from what it was when he first saw it, and he meets President Cleveland there. Outside the halls of Congress,
Cole assists in the legislation for the Los Angeles Harbor project, noting well the pressures applied by the supporters of
the Santa Monica and San Pedro sites.

When many of his old friends and relatives pass from the scene during these years, Cole momentarily despairs and turns to
his memories. His recollections of a busy life are given to the public in a volume of memoirs published in 1908. But the busy
life is far from over. The anxiety and uncertainty of the first World War stimulate his old interests and energies, until
his busy pen takes the place of his presence in public forums. The writing of these years is neither erratic nor meaningless.
Men whose voices are respected by a great part of the nation write serious thoughts to Cole and welcome his opinions. The
self-assurance and sometimes bitter partisanship through which he observed and then dismissed Andrew Johnson, William McKinley,
and Theodore Roosevelt, is now turned against Woodrow Wilson. Like many of his countrymen, he finds in the calm presence of
Warren G. Harding a source of hope and domestic stability which the past years had so disturbed. In these last years, he continues
to gather the honor of his neighbors, as a California Pioneer, and of his fellow countrymen, as the last survivor of the government
of Abraham Lincoln. In 1922, he receives an ovation in the House of Representatives. Having cast his first vote for James
K. Polk, he casts his last one for Calvin Coolidge.

Magnificent as it is, the story of the Cole papers does not confine itself to the Senator's letters and papers. Almost every
day that Cornelius and his wife, Olive, were apart, which was a large portion of their lives, they wrote to each other. Their
letters came from San Francisco and Los Angeles, from Washington, D.C. and towns in upstate New York. But Olive's letters
and writings are not just the warm sentiments of a devoted wife and mother. They tell of California politics, of ambitions
in the Grant Cabinet, of visits to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 and the Yosemite Valley. She served on
the state committee representing California at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and was the delegate-at-large
from the state at the Republican National Convention of 1916. Moreover, the writing habit of Cornelius and his wife is
reflected in the extensive correspondence of their eight children and dozens of relatives, even to the third and fourth generation.
Cole's brother, George, writes from the battle front during the campaigns in Virginia in the Civil War. Cole's son, Willoughby,
tells of life at Cornell University in the 1870s and of his long friendship with Grant's son, Jesse. Another son, George R.,
writes from Vienna during the 1890s. Several members of the family describe life in the territories of the Southwest when
that region was still a frontier. Together, the family papers constitute a partial pattern of American life.

The general sense of the significance of these papers secured their physical preservation, even when the writer cautioned:
destroy this. They were brought out of the packing trunks years later, most of them still resealed in their original envelopes.
Some of them were used by Catherine C. Phillips for a biography of Cole, privately printed in 1929. But numerous volumes of
history and biography remain to be written with reference to them. Through the perceptive efforts of Lindley Bynum, the papers
were given to the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles, by Cole's daughter, Lucretia Waring, in 1952. Now
the grand pageant of a century is opened for the appreciation and use of students of California and American history...the
history which Cornelius Cole and his family lived.

E.R.R.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of material concerning the public and private career of California Senator Cornelius Cole and his family.
Includes correspondence, business papers, clippings, photographs, scrap books, diaries, various writings by Cornelius and
Olive Cole, and family memorabilia. The papers cover more than a century of American history including California politics,
government and history, life in the Southwest, Civil War campaigns, railroads, and the crystallization of the new Republican
party in Northern California.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:

Correspondence of Cornelius Cole (1851-1924).

Correspondence of the Cole family (1846-1940).

Business papers of Cornelius Cole and the Cole family (1850-1926).

The writings of Cornelius and Olive Cole and the Cole family (1850-1924).

Miscellaneous papers and objects (1833-1943).

Correspondence and papers of Olive Howard Waring (1898-1941).

Papers of Cole family law partnership (1886-1916).

Physical Arrangement

Correspondence of Cornelius Cole

Cole to various persons

Various persons to Cole

Cole to Olive Cole

Olive Cole to Cole

Cole to members of the Cole family

Members of the Cole family to Cole

Correspondence of the Cole Family

Olive Cole to various persons

Various persons to Olive Cole

Olive Cole to members of the Cole family

Members of the Cole family to Olive Cole

Members of the Cole family to various persons

Various persons to members of the Cole family

Business Papers of Cornelius Cole and the Cole Family

The Writings of Cornelius and Olive Cole and the Cole Family

The writings of Cornelius Cole

The writings of Olive Cole

The writings of members of the Cole family

Miscellaneous Papers and Objects

Newspaper clippings concerning Cornelius and Olive Cole and the Cole family

Newspapers and newspaper clippings concerning political subjects

Miscellaneous documents and papers

Scrapbooks concerning family and political subjects

Invitations and calling cards

Memorabilia

Photographs of members of the Cole family and of various persons

Correspondence and Papers of Olive Howard Waring

Olive Waring to various persons

Various persons to Olive Waring

Writings of Olive Waring

Miscellaneous documents and papers

Objects and memorabilia

Papers of Cole Family Law Partnerships

Within each document box, the materials are contained in folders, labeled by subject and chronological span, and arranged
in a general chronological order. The user should note that some pieces may be out of this general order because of erroneous
or unknown dating, or because of enclosure in or relation to another piece. In the cases of diaries and other bound volumes,
each piece bears a label with the date of the contents. In the cases of such miscellaneous materials as the invitations and
calling cards and the memorabilia, no chronological order is used. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject
and surname.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Cole, Cornelius, 1822-1924--Archives.

Cole, Olive--Archives.

Cole family--Archives.

Pioneers--California--Archival resources.

Lawyers--California--Archival resources.

Legislators--Archival resources.

Genres and Forms of Material

Family papers.

Letters.

Diaries.

Subject Index

A list of selected letters and subjects to be used as a guide to references in the Cole papers.

Letters to and from Cornelius Cole located at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Container List

Correspondence of Cornelius Cole, 1851-1924

Physical Description: (Approximately 4000 pieces)

Cornelius Cole to Various Persons, 1856-1923

Box 1

1856-1866

Physical Description: 40 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Drafts and copies of letters concerning early California politics, the Democratic party, the administration of James Buchanan,
the Kansas controversy, David C. Broderick, William H. Seward, the Republican National Committee, candidates for the presidency
in 1860, politics and conditions in Washington, D.C., the burning of Richmond, currency issues, the Russian Fur Company.

Box 1

1867-1872

Physical Description: 35 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Drafts and copies of letters concerning California politics, John Conness, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, members of the
U.S. Senate, Baron de Stoeckl and Russian-American affairs, the Treaty of Washington, the arrest and trial of George W. Cole.

Box 1

1872-1879

Physical Description: 8 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Drafts and copies of letters concerning the California and Texas Railroad, the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Cole's
finances.

Box 1

1880-1912

Physical Description: 18 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Drafts and copies of letters concerning James A. Garfield and possible appointments to his Cabinet, real estate in California,
mining claims in Oregon Canyon, California, the career of the Cole brothers and their companions in the gold fields, 1849-1851, Adolph Spreckels and the tariff on sugar, Wesleyan University, the election and Republican convention of 1912, facts in
the case of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

Box 1

1913-1919

Physical Description: 64 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Drafts and copies of letters concerning Cole's
Memoirs, the policies of Woodrow Wilson and the world situation, German warfare, the Republican Convention in Chicago in 1916, Hiram
Johnson, Elihu Root, Theodore Roosevelt, Will H. Hays, the strength of Republicans in California, Cole's copy of Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation.

Drafts and copies of letters to Warren G. Harding, as Senator from Ohio and President of the United States, concerning Woodrow
Wilson's foreign Policy, the world situation, Harding's candidacy at the Republican Convention in 1920, and disarmament.

Including letters to George C. Perkins on the subject of the tariff on lemons, to A.G. Spalding on the subject of his senatorial
campaign, letters to members of the Los Angeles city council on the subject of street names.

Various Persons to Cornelius Cole, 1851-1870

Box 2

1851-1859

Physical Description: 48 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers concerning the John C. Fremont campaign in California in 1856, the Republican National Committee, preparations for the Convention of 1860, envelope containing letters of Edward Stanley concerning Republican strength in the state, speeches, factions and personalities
in politics, 1857; letters of F.P. Tracy concerning cases in San Francisco and Fremont Clubs in the mines; 2 letters from A.A. Sargent from
Nevada City, California during the campaign of 1854, 4 letters from James Pratt concerning the Negro extradition case in 1852; 9 letters from E.D. Morgan concerning the Philadelphia Republican Convention of 1856 and the Fremont campaign.

Box 2

1860-1862

Physical Description: 12 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers concerning the Republican National Committee, their Convention of 1860, appointments and problems of the new Lincoln administration, San Francisco lands, 3 letters from F.P. Tracy concerning appointments,
Seward's candidacy, delegates to the Convention, Fremont's political strength.

Letters and papers concerning the Texas-Pacific railroad, the Samoan Islands, United States financial policy, the issue of
reform in politics, the Caribbean trade, real estate in California. Letters from James W. Simonton mentioning Goat Island,
San Francisco, bill then pending, influence of the Central Pacific railroad upon that matter, the low point of popularity
of the Grant administration, San Domingo; letter from John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury George Boutwell; Attorney General
George H. Williams concerning Pacific Islands, mentioning Secretary of State Hamilton Fish; 2 letters from John Bidwell; letter
from Newton Booth concerning removal of the Modoc Indians in California; letter from Hamilton Fish to Attorney General Williams
concerning Pacific Islands.

Box 3

1873-1875

Physical Description: 60 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers concerning the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Central Polynesian Land and Commerce Company, the Texas-Pacific
railroad, the University of California, mining claims in California, Zachariah Chandler as Secretary of the Interior, Grant's
Cabinet, corruption in the Land office and Indian Bureau, appointments in the Treasury Department. Letters from James W. Simonton,
1873; William R. Grace, steamship line financier, Daniel C. Gilman of the University of California; Benjamin H. Bristow, E.B.
Washburne; card from William T. Sherman; 5 letters from Gabriel K. Stevenot concerning guano deposits in Peru, papers relative
to that subject; 5 letters from John A. Bingham concerning Pacific Mail Steamship Company route; letter from Newton Booth
concerning Modoc Indians; letter from Senator Eugene Casserly mentioning Oliver P. Morton; letter from S.S. Cox and Mrs. Cox;
letter from Frederick W. Seward.

Box 3

1876-1879

Physical Description: 35 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers concerning Society of California Pioneers, California stocks and real estate, bill to remonetize silver,
New Constitution Party in California, Dennis Kearny, third term controversy, mining boom in Arizona. Letters from Senator
John Jones of Nevada, E.B. Washburne; Admiral E.G. Parrott.

Various Persons to Cornelius Cole, 1880-1921

Box 4

1880-1898

Physical Description: 80 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers concerning California silk culture, the national elections of 1884 with the consequences to be expected from the Democratic victory and the reason for the Republican defeat, Senators Roscoe
Conkling and James G. Blaine, Republican League of California, Wesleyan University, obsequies of James A. Garfield in San
Francisco, Los Angeles fruit growers, conditions in Arizona, conditions in northern Mexico, Court of Commissioners for the
Alabama Claims, local campaign literature for 1893, Historical Society of Southern California, Attorney General Richard Olney, Alaska fisheries, bank panics in 1894, pioneer conditions in Oregon Valley, California, political strength of William J. Bryan and William McKinley in California
counties, Collis P. Huntington, citrus fruits in Congressional committee deliberations. Letters from Samuel Clemens and his
wife Olivia, 1898, mentioning Spain and Cuba's acquisition by the U.S., 2 letters from Senator Stephen White; letter from Senator W. B. Allison;
letter from Senator John Jones concerning citrus tax; 3 letters from Senator George Perkins concerning U.S. Financial policy
and legislation, 1893-1894; letter from Charles Maltby concerning Lincoln article; letter from Thomas F. Bayard concerning English laws pertaining to
postal savings; letter from C.W. Fullerton of Chicago; 2 letters from Representative Charles A. Barlow concerning U.S. bonds;
letter from James G. Blaine sending letter of introduction for Emma Cole; letter from Cassius M. Clay concerning his role
in the Alaska Purchase; letter from Senator George F. Edmunds of Vermont; letter from President-Elect James A. Garfield concerning
the effect of the forged Chinese letter on his election in California; letter from Senator William Stewart of California;
J.H. Mitchell of Oregon; and Douglas Tilden, sculptor; 6 letters from Collis P. Huntington concerning the Central Pacific
Railroad and the Los Angeles Harbor.

Letters and papers concerning Cole's
Memoirs, inquiries about the various copies of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the campaign of William H. Taft in 1912. Letter from H.H. Bancroft; letter from Senator George Perkins, concerning Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican party in
California; 4 letters from George F. Edmunds, mentioning Andrew Johnson, W.P. Fessenden, Lyman Trumbull; 2 letters from Rockwell
D. Hunt; letter from R.M. Brereton concerning Cole's irrigation and lands legislation.

Box 4

1915-1918

Physical Description: 50 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers concerning Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive party, support of Charles E. Hughes in the Republican
Convention of 1916, the United Republicans of Southern California, the Republican National Committee, Wilson's foreign policy, U.S. participation
in the World War, the Worden espionage case, death of Olive Cole. 3 letters from Rockwell D. Hunt; letter from Secretary of
State Robert Lansing concerning U.S. shipping destroyed by England and Germany; letter from Senator James Watson; letter from
Will H. Hays, 1918.

Letters and papers concerning the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, Wilson, the Republican National Conventions
of 1860 and 1920, Hiram Johnson, history of Lake Tahoe, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Wesleyan University, California Republicans and
the election of 1864, Cole's birthdays. Letters from Senators Frank Brandegee, Boise Penrose, Samuel Shortridge; letter from Hiram Johnson on
the Senate and the League of Nations; letter from Will H. Hays; 5 letters from Charles F. Lummis; 8 letters from Henry E.
Huntington concerning Cole's
Memoirs, real estate, and copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Various Persons to Cornelius Cole, 1877-1892

Box 48, Folder 1

Letters1877-1887

Physical Description: 10 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning the reclamation of lands in California; Los Angeles county railroads; location of Soldiers' Home near Cole property;
Letter T.F. Bayard.

Box 48, Folder 2

Letters and papers1888

Physical Description: 70 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning the litigation of the
Alabama claims under Cole's charge and interest, the finances of private parties therein concerned, relations with other claims lawyers
in Washington, D.C. and California, especially Samuel Stevens, James Lowndes, and Shellabarger and Wilson. Letters concerning
Los Angeles county railroad.

Box 48, Folder 3

Letters and papers1889

Physical Description: 80 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning the litigation of the
Alabama claims cases, continued, and the private financial and legal transactions therein involved; letters mainly from Samuel Stevens.

Box 48, Folder 4

Letters and papers1890-1899

Physical Description: 110 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning the litigation of the
Alabama claims cases, continued, and the private financial and legal transactions therein involved. Letters concerning Cole real
estate, the reclamation of lands in California, road improvements of same.

Various Persons to Cornelius Cole, 1893-1923

Box 49, Folder 1

Letters and papers1893-1894

Physical Description: 60 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning the sale, use and reclamation of lands in California, and of Cole real estate, state legislation concerning same.

Folder 2

Letters1896-1902

Physical Description: 25 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning the Los Angeles Harbor controversy; leasing of Cole land for oil drilling.

Box 49, Folder 3

Letters1904-1912

Physical Description: 80 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning administration of Hollywood High School; the case of Salter D. Worden and Cole's efforts to obtain a pardon for
him, including 10 Worden letters; letters from California Senators and Congressmen discussing the course of proposed tariff
bill on lemons, including 1 James C. Needham letter, 5 letters from George C. Perkins, one letter from William D. Stephens,
and 6 letters from Frank P. Flint; Letters concerning the senatorial campaign of A.G. Spalding, including comment on his opponent,
John D. Works, 3 Spalding letters.

Box 49, Folder 4

Letter from F.W. Seward V.P. to C. Cole.1913-1923

Various Persons to Cornelius Cole, 1922-1924

Box 5

1922

Physical Description: 140 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers concerning Cole's 100th birthday, Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address, the days of 1849 in the gold mines and early California, the Alaska Purchase, Society of California Pioneers, Wesleyan University, University
of Southern California. Letter from Charles F. Lummis, from John Hays Hammond, from Carl F. Rosecrans; telegram from J.L.
Giannini.

Letters written from Sacramento and San Francisco concerning politics, court cases, abolition, the removal of George B. McClellan.

Box 6

1863

Physical Description: 96 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from San Francisco, during voyage via Panama, and from Washington, D.C. concerning the Emancipation Proclamation,
the Pacific railroad, depreciation of legal tender, conditions in the capitol in wartime, Californians in Congress.

Box 6

1864

Physical Description: 75 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from Washington, D.C. concerning debates in Congress, the conscription bill, foreign affairs, the Pacific railroad,
Jubal Early's raid near the capitol, Schuyler Colfax, James A. Garfield, Reverdy Johnson, a meeting with President Lincoln,
a dinner with William H. Seward.

Box 6

1865

Physical Description: 55 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning Congressional debates on currency standard, the consideration of the 13th
Amendment in the House of Representatives, a levy at the White House, Benjamin Butler, the burning of the Smithsonian Institution,
Lincoln and Edwin Stanton at a lecture, the Pacific railroad, the vote in Congress on the 13th Amendment, a military prison
camp in the North, receptions and parties at the residences of Seward, Gideon Welles, William Dennison, Stanton, the China
Mail bill, movements of the armies, investments in oil, Fernando Wood, Californians in Washington, Collis P. Huntington, the
inauguration of Lincoln, correspondence with Alexander Gardner, the photographer.

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning amendments to the Treaty of Washington, Zachariah Chandler, Benjamin Wade,
reception at the Japanese ministry, Mormon leader Orson Pratt, dinner with Robert G. [?] Ingersoll, Carl Schurz, A.A. Sargent,
Conkling's defense of Grant in the Senate, Charles Sumner's criticism of Grant, Ku Klux Klan bill, nomination of Grant, visit
of Hamilton Fish to San Francisco, threat of war with England, Washington, D.C. society, pictures taken by Mathew Brady and
Alexander Gardner.

Cornelius Cole to Olive Cole, 1873-1877

Box 8

1873

Physical Description: 10 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington concerning partisan factions in the Senate and Washington, D.C., the Cabinet, Senate campaign
in California concerning Newton Booth and A.A. Sargent, William Evarts, William Belknap, the appointment of a Chief Justice,
the Asiatic Commercial Company, Texas-Pacific railroad, Northern railroad, the Grant family.

Box 8

1874

Physical Description: 36 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from California and Washington, D.C. concerning the A.A. Sargent Senatorial contest in California, affairs
in Los Angeles, Nebraska, James Carleton of New Mexico Territory, Leland Stanford, General Edward Ord, Attorney General George
Williams, dislike of Hamilton Fish for Cole and Fish's opposition to Cole, William T. Sherman and John Sherman, minister to
Vienna, a currency bill, Senator William Stewart of Nevada, property of Grant in Midwest.

Box 8

1875

Physical Description: 37 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning the death of Andrew Johnson, John Sherman, Benjamin Bristow, Georgetown University,
Cole as a possible appointee as Secretary of the Interior, migrations to California, life in Nevada, economic and political
state of the nation, various candidates of both parties.

Box 8

1876

Physical Description: 42 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning the presidential campaign, the Geneva Award bill, the Centennial Exposition
at Philadelphia, the contested election, debates in Congress on the Amnesty bill, Senator George Edmunds, Grant's Cabinet,
slender victory of the Republican Presidential candidate, reception of the Belknap scandal in Washington, D.C., the War Premiums
bill, settlement of the Alabama claims, Secretary of the Interior Zachariah Chandler, Benjamin Wade.

Box 8

1877

Physical Description: 32 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Sacramento, Los Angeles, voyage in the Caribbean Sea, Washington, D.C. concerning state and local affairs
in California, Democratic and Republican factions during the electoral crisis, John Sherman on the Joint Committee for the
election, Cole's confidence in the victory of Rutherford B. Hayes, presence of foreigners on ship in the Caribbean Sea.

Cornelius Cole to Olive Cole, 1878-1883

Box 9

1878

Physical Description: 52 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Los Angeles and San Francisco concerning local and family matters, specifically, real estate.

Letters written from San Francisco concerning the influence of the Southern Pacific railroad on state politics, General William
T. Sherman's visit to San Francisco and his possibilities as a candidate for President, the publication of the Collis P. Huntington
letters.

Cornelius Cole to Olive Cole, 1884-1886

Box 10

1884

Physical Description: 133 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland, the Court of Claims for the Alabama
cases, a meeting with Chester A. Arthur, the Arthur Cabinet, John A. Logan, General and Mrs. Sherman, Senator Shelby Cullom
of Illinois, members and former members of the Senate, Kansas, California campaigns, oration by Robert Ingersoll, the financial
failure of the Grants.

Box 10

1885

Physical Description: 78 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from San Francisco, Boston, Washington, D.C., concerning the last illness of Grant, Columbian celebration
by Italians in San Francisco, lectures by Joseph Le Conte and John Fiske, the French spoliation claims, the bequest of Leland
Stanford, Boston and New England people, Women's Suffrage Association.

Box 10

1886

Physical Description: 70 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Sacramento and San Francisco, concerning China problems, Chinese exclusion, the land rush to San Diego
and Los Angeles, Southern Pacific railroad's monopoly of San Francisco traffic, Grand Army of the Republic Convention in San
Francisco, John A. Logan and his wife, William T. Sherman and his wife, Grant and his
Memoirs.

Cornelius Cole to Olive Cole, 1887-1916

1887

Physical Description: 103 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from San Francisco concerning the Southern Pacific railroad's control of state politics, northern California
discrimination against Los Angeles citrus growers, clemency for the Chicago anarchists, lecture by John Hittell, concert by
Adela Patti.

Box 11

1890

Physical Description: 41 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from San Francisco concerning San Francisco's apprehension over the Los Angeles land boom, the 40th anniversary
of statehood celebration, Society of California Pioneers.

Box 11

1892

Physical Description: 7 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Colegrove, Los Angeles, concerning family matters, James G. Blaine's memoirs.

Box 11

1895-1896

Physical Description: 33 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning the debates and lobbies in Congress over the Los Angeles Harbor bill, strategy
and efforts of supporters of San Pedro and Santa Monica sites, Senators Stephen M. White of California, Edmunds of Vermont,
Schurz, the changes in the capitol city, the Chicago Republican National Convention, William McKinley, influence of the Southern
Pacific railroad on persons and politics in California, St. Louis, East St. Louis tornado, Collis P. Huntington in Washington,
D.C., visit to President Cleveland by Cole, Louisiana, Texas.

Box 11

1916

Physical Description: 8 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Colegrove, Los Angeles, concerning Theodore Roosevelt's candidacy at the Republican National Convention
in Chicago.

Olive Cole to Cornelius Cole, 1852-1868

Box 12

1852-1853

Physical Description: 18 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Santa Cruz, California and elsewhere concerning family affairs.

Box 12

1853-1861

Physical Description: 19 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Santa Cruz, California, concerning local and family affairs.

Box 12

1862

Physical Description: 80 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Santa Cruz and elsewhere, concerning family affairs, McClellan and the Emancipation Proclamation.

Box 12

1863

Physical Description: 25 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Santa Cruz and elsewhere concerning local and family affairs, celebration of the victory at Vicksburg.

Box 12

1864

Physical Description: 35 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Trumansburg, New York and elsewhere, concerning the nomination of McClellan, the course of the war, Benjamin
F. Butler, Reverdy Johnson, Andersonville prison.

Box 12

1865

Physical Description: 42 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Havana, New York and elsewhere concerning family affairs, Negro freedmen.

Box 12

1866

Physical Description: 25 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Geneva, New York and Trumansburg, New York concerning Andrew Johnson.

Box 12

1867

Physical Description: 31 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning state elections, the trial of George W. Cole, Baron de Stoeckl and Russian
affairs, Roscoe Conkling.

Box 12

1868

Physical Description: 30 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, John Conness as possible Secretary of
the Interior, the marriage of Robert T. Lincoln, Grant, Colfax.

Olive Cole to Cornelius Cole, 1870-1881

Box 13

1870

Physical Description: 30 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C. concerning members of the Senate, Hamilton Fish, John L. Motley, the Grant family.

Box 13

1871-1872

Physical Description: 64 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Washington, D.C., San Francisco concerning the Central Pacific Railroad's influence in California politics
and the Republican State Convention, Alaska, Charles Sumner, Carl Schurz, Grant and his supporters in California, Secretary
of the Interior Columbus Delano, Frederick Dent.

Box 13

1873

Physical Description: 18 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from San Francisco concerning the Senate campaign of Newton Booth, the influence of the Central Pacific Railroad
in California politics, Benjamin Bristow.

Box 13

1874

Physical Description: 27 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from San Francisco and elsewhere concerning the Sanborn contracts, General William T. Sherman, Grant.

Box 13

1875

Physical Description: 55 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from San Francisco and elsewhere concerning California politics, Hubert H. Bancroft at Lake Tahoe.

Box 13

1876

Physical Description: 46 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written mainly from Sacramento concerning the candidates, parties, and events in the national election, the Centennial
Exposition at Philadelphia, the trial of William Belknap.

Box 13

1877

Physical Description: 9 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from California concerning family matters.

Box 13

1878

Physical Description: 11 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from California concerning the Grant family.

Box 13

1879-1881

Physical Description: 13 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from California concerning the Cabinet of James A. Garfield.

Olive Cole to Cornelius Cole, 1882-1916

Box 14

1882

Physical Description: 27 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from California concerning local and family affairs.

Box 14

1883

Physical Description: 22 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from California concerning local and family affairs.

Box 14

1884

Physical Description: 70 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Colegrove, Los Angeles, concerning local and family affairs, the national election, James G. Blaine,
James Harlan, possible appointments by Grover Cleveland.

Box 14

1885

Physical Description: 52 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Colegrove, Los Angeles, concerning state politics, the election of Leland Stanford as Senator.

Box 14

1886

Physical Description: 8 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Colegrove, Los Angeles concerning family matters.

Box 14

1887

Physical Description: 8 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Colegrove, Los Angeles, concerning family matters.

Box 14

1916

Physical Description: 14 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from Chicago and elsewhere concerning events and persons at the Republican National Convention in Chicago
where Olive Cole was Delegate at Large from California, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles E. Hughes, Theodore E. Burton of Ohio,
General Leonard Wood.

Correspondence of Cornelius Cole With Members of His Family, 1851-1924

Box 15, Folder 1

Cornelius Cole to his children1862-1923

Physical Description: 28 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

There are letters to Emma, Seward, Willoughby, Grace, George R., George Townsend, Cornelia concerning Samuel L. Clemens, suffragettes,
financial conditions before the election of 1896, location of Cole's copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Box 15, Folder 2

Cornelius Cole to his mother and sister Martha.1851-1863

Physical Description: 8 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning fires in San Francisco in 1852

Box 15, Folder 3

George W. Cole to Cornelius Cole1863-1879

Physical Description: 53 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning Headquarters, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, army campaigns, Dutch Gap canal failure, rams and torpedoes
on the James River, the military situation in Virginia in January 1865, Fortress Monroe, Negro troops, freed slaves, controversy over promotion involving Benjamin F. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Edwin
Stanton, impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Mexico Granada mail contract, Atchison, Topeka railroad, Santa Fe, New Mexico, to
San Francisco railroad, arrest and trial of George W. Cole, mining and railroads in New Mexico Territory.

Letters from nephew C.C. Smith concerning superintendency of Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, letters concerning Cole
family and ancestry, property in New Mexico.

Correspondence of the Cole Family, 1846-1940

Physical Description: (Approximately 1700 pieces)

Correspondence of Olive Cole With Various Persons, 1851-1918

Box 16

1852-1918

Physical Description: 20 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Drafts and copies of letters to various persons including Benjamin F. Butler, Ulysses S. Grant, James G. Blaine, concerning
a Cabinet appointment for Cornelius Cole, to Senator James E. Watson concerning Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson, and the
Progressive Party in 1918; Letter concerning Senator George H. Williams as Secretary of Interior; Letter concerning the Blaines [????], [????], changes
in the capital.

Box 16

1851-1869

Physical Description: 92 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters to Olive Cole from various persons including letters from James Pratt, letter from John Augustus Sutter, 1867, and letters from various friends and relatives concerning the transfer of Indian Affairs to the War Department, the trial
of George Cole, letter from Benjamin F. Butler.

Letters to Olive Cole from various relatives and friends, including letter from Samuel Purdy concerning James G. Blaine.

Box 16

3 letters to Olive Cole from Warren Harding.1916-17

Various Persons to Olive Cole, 1892-1893

Box 17

1892

Physical Description: 110 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters and papers from various persons to Olive Cole mainly concerning the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, and other
expositions in California at the same time. Olive Cole was one of the Lady Managers of California's exhibits at the Exposition.

Box 17

1893

Physical Description: 145 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

A continuation of the subject matter from the preceding folder, with the addition of letters from various persons concerning
Olive Cole's resignation as manager of the California exhibit at the Columbian Exposition.

Various Persons to Olive Cole, 1894-1922

Box 18

1894-1913

Physical Description: 62 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from various relatives and friends concerning abolition days, Women's National Silver League. 4 letters from Mrs.
John A. Logan.

Box 18

1914-1915

Physical Description: 64 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from various relatives and friends concerning the Historical Society of Southern California, women's suffrage, Los
Angeles, state Republican campaigns, letter from Mrs. John A. Logan.

Box 18

1916

Physical Description: 150 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from relatives, friends, and various persons to Olive Cole concerning local, state, and national political campaigns,
the Republican Convention at Chicago.

Box 18

1917-1922

Physical Description: 13 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from various persons to Olive Cole, including letter from Nicholas Murray Butler, Senator Watson Squire of Oregon,
card from Mrs. John A. Logan.

Letters from members of the Cole family to each other, including letters from Willoughby, George R., Gilbert, Emma, of the
Coles, and from Caroline and Susan Colegrove.
1869-1916

Physical Description: 13 pieces.

Box 22, Folder 2

Letters from various persons to members of the Cole family.1847-1940

Physical Description: 32 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce concerning the death of Cornelius Cole, to Lucretia Cole Waring concerning
her father's papers, his connection with the Alaska Purchase, letters from Catherine C. Phillips to Lucretia Cole Waring concerning
research for her biography of Cornelius Cole. Also, 6 letters to George R. Cole from Claval Elemens 1 from Olivia Ellemens.

Box 22, Folder 3

Manuscript pieces partly in the handwriting of Cornelius Colen.d.

Physical Description: 11 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Apparently attempts to communicate with deceased members of the Cole family.

Box 22, Folder 4

Documents of the Cole Family Ancestors1819-1851

Physical Description: 36 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Deeds, indentures, maps, titles, notices concerning the lands and properties primarily of David Cole, father of Cornelius
Cole.

Correspondence of Lucretia Cole (Mrs. Howard S. Waring)

Box 51, Folder 1

Lucretia Cole to Cornelius Cole.1908-1909

Physical Description: 4 pieces.

Box 51, Folder 2

Lucretia Cole to Olive Cole.1871-1907

Physical Description: 42 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from various places in Europe during two tours of the continent.

Box 51, Folder 3

Lucretia Cole to Olive Cole.1908-1909

Physical Description: 85 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters written from various places in Europe.

Box 51, Folder 4

Relatives to Lucretia Cole.1893-1918

Physical Description: 26 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters from sister Emma, brothers George T. and Schuyler, S.C. Colegrove, concerning death of Mr. Waring and of Olive Cole

Letters from Europe, and letters concerning the family, including letter from Myron T. Herrick.

Box 52, Folder 3

Diaries of Lucretia Cole.1873-1890

Physical Description: 3 vol. and 5pp.

Scope and Content Note

Volume of 1873 concerning the Grants, especially Jessie Grant, family of General Irvin McDowell, H.H. Bancroft, entries to
1880. vol. 1880 including sketch by Jessie Grant, references to the McDowells and Grants, Sharons, reception for President
Hayes, entries to 1881, many pages missing and mutilated. vol. 1887 references to members of the Cleveland Cabinet, wife of
Senator Jones, Robert Peary, Grover Cleveland, Roscoe Conkling. Unbound pages of diary of 1890 concerning voyage to Europe.

Concerning personal finances, appointments, local events in California, and Washington, D.C. There are brief references to
national affairs, Presidents, Senators, elections. The most significant entries are in vol. 1863-1864, in which there is mention of the fortifications around Washington, D.C., a description of a visit to General Ulysses S.
Grant and his statements concerning army campaigns, and the entry in vol. 1867 which is a transcription from an earlier diary (missing) concerning a trip made by Cole through Virginia in July, 1865, with details of the conditions there immediately after the war. No volumes for the period, 1872-1875.

Subjects include the Central Pacific and other California railroads, the appointive power of the President, plans of the Republican
party, an interview with William H. Seward concerning Russian and Pacific affairs.

Writings of Cornelius Cole, 1870-1919

Box 28, Folder 1

Drafts of articles, legislation, and statements by Cornelius Cole1870-1879

Drafts and printed copies of articles, essays, and statements by Cornelius Cole1914-1919

Physical Description: 152 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include the causes and course of World War I, the character and policies of Woodrow Wilson, relations with England
and Germany, Theodore Roosevelt, Collis P. Huntington, Robert E. Lee, the League of Nations, California lemon industry and
the tariff, Hiram Johnson, the Central Pacific railroad, the Progressive party.

Writings of Cornelius Cole, 1894-1912

Box 60, Folder 1

Drafts of articles and statements by Cornelius Cole1894-1903

Physical Description: 22 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include Los Angeles Harbor controversy, and Hollywood High School.

vol.1 includes essays on gravitation, the cause of heat and light, inhabitants of the spheres.

vol.2 includes essay on the curious mounds of California.

vol.3 includes essays of Cornelius Cole's first participation in the Van-Buren-Cass campaign in 1848 in New York State, the Democratic party, abolition, experiences with Mark Hopkins in 1852 during the Negro Extradition case in Sacramento, mining in early California, lynching at Jackson, California in 1849, Cole's ancestry, Thaddeus Stevens, C.P. Huntington, John Brown, Lincoln, slavery, capital and labor, Hannibal Hamlin's humor.

vol.4 includes essays on currency issues, World War I.

Literary Pieces by Cornelius Cole, n.d.

Box 30

2 sets of typescripts bound in 2 vol. tentatively entitled
Proverbial Couplets by A Pioneer [or
by Grandfather; or
by An Octogenarian].

Physical Description: 250pp. each vol.

Box 31, Folder 1

22 pocket-size volumes of couplets by Cornelius Cole. Some of them are political in subject.

Box 31, Folder 2

5 tablet-size volumes of couplets and fables by Cornelius Cole.

Box 31, Folder 3

Manuscript fragments of couplets, fables by Cornelius Cole.

Physical Description: 10 pieces.

Box 31, Folder 4

Fables by Cornelius Cole. Manuscript and typescript copies.

Physical Description: 8 pieces.

Box 31, Folder 5

Miscellaneous literary pieces. Most of the pieces are philosophical in subject.

Physical Description: 28 pieces.

Diaries and Reminiscences of Olive Cole, 1851-1918

Box 32, Folder 1

Diaries: vol. 1851-1857.

Physical Description: 4 vol.

Scope and Content Note

Entries concerning family and life in New York State and in California, Republican organization and politics, the election
of 1856, lists of callers which includes Leland Stanford and Mark Hopkins, San Francisco city elections. vol. 1866-1868: Entries
concerning the administration and impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction, the 38th Congress, visit to Mt. Vernon, Virginia,
George W. Cole's trial, debates on redemption of gold bonds, Benjamin Butler, Newton Booth, Grant, George Boutwell, Vennie
Ream, sculptress. vol. 1869-1871: Entries concerning the inauguration of Grant, his personality, Cornelius Cole's political
appointments, Decoration Day in 1869, the Franco-Prussian War, W.P. Fessenden, Lyman Trumbull, Jacob Cox, Babcock, Andrew
Johnson, Mrs. Belknap, Commissioners for the Alabama Claims, Charles Sumner, Hamilton Fish, Zachariah Chandler. vol. 1872-1877:
Entries concerning the election of Newton Booth, influence of the Central Pacific railroad, visit to Yosemite Valley, influence
of capitalists on Grant and Congress, rumor of war with Spain over Cuba, cases of Cornelius Cole in the U.S. Supreme Court,
San Francisco affairs, death of W.C. Ralston, the Theodore Tilton-Henry Ward Beecher case, Centennial Exposition.

Box 32, Folder 2

Reminiscences of Olive Cole.

Physical Description: 16 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include her early life in New York State in the 1850s, early California, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Grant,
Mark Twain.

Writings of Olive Cole and Members of the Cole Family, 1873-1918

Box 32, Folder 1

Articles and essays by Olive Cole.

Physical Description: 80 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Subjects include the World's Columbian Exposition, the Republican party, Water and Power bonds, women's suffrage.

Clippings from California newspapers concerning the election of 1912, candidates and the campaign.

Physical Description: 6 pieces.

Box 36, Envelope 7

Clippings and papers from various political campaigns in California and the U.S.1852-1922

Physical Description: 65 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Sample ballots, lists of candidates, advertisements.

Box 36, Envelope 8

Clippings from California newspapers1914-1919

Physical Description: 28 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning World War I, American foreign policy, election of 1916.

Box 36, Envelope 9

Clippings from California newspapers1906-1926

Physical Description: 28 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Concerning state and local history.

Box 36, Envelope 10

New York State newspapers.1846-1913

Physical Description: 7 pieces.

Miscellaneous Papers, Volumes, and Documents 1863-1923

Physical Description: (Oversize)

Box 37, Folder 1

Manuscript draft of
Observations in San Domingo by Cornelius Cole.
1869

Physical Description: 138pp.

Box 37, Folder 2

Political record book1863-1872

Scope and Content Note

Lists of names and addresses of persons, political contacts, office holders, editors in California.

Box 37, Folder 3

Lists of addresses in California and Washington, D.C., including political persons in the Grant administration.c. 1860-1880

Physical Description: 5 pocket-size volumes; 2 unbound lists.

Box 37, Folder 4

Autograph books. vol. 1870

Scope and Content Note

Containing autographs of the members of the Senate in that year. vol. 1922-1923: birthday guests.

Box 37, Folder 5

Papers and documents concerning the ancestry of Cornelius Cole and the genealogy of the Cole family.

Physical Description: 4 pieces.

Box 37, Folder 6

Positive photograph of Cornelius Cole's copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln.

Box 37, Folder 7

Miscellaneous documents.1859-1922

Physical Description: 32 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Included are copies of bills in the Senate and House of Representatives,
Congressional Directory, 1893, printed copies of speeches by John Sherman, Montgomery Blair, Thaddeus Stevens, James A. Garfield, the
Congressional Record, June 27, 1922

Concerning the World Columbian Exposition at Chicago and Olive Cole's activities in connection with it.

Box 38, Scrapbook 7

Clippings from California and other papers1833-1928

Physical Description: [Oversize-wrapped separately].

Scope and Content Note

Concerning general political subjects and members of the Cole family.

Boxes 39 and 64

Invitations and calling cards from various persons.1850-1924

Physical Description: 1500 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Three envelopes of invitations and calling cards, some of them autographed, from most of the persons whose names or letters
appear in the correspondence, including men in government and politics, and friends of the family.

Memorabilia

Box 40

Memorabilia and objects concerning various persons and members of the Cole Family.1850-1922

Commissions from Midshipman to Lieutenant U.S. Navy, signed and sealed.

Box 70, Folder 5

Miscellaneous papers concerning Howard S. Waring.

Scope and Content Note

Includes obituary of Waring, notes on the cruise of the U.S.S. Rodgers.

Bound Volumes Concerning Howard S. Waring

Box 76

Photo Albums.

Scope and Content Note

2 albums of photographs of Alaska and cruises in northern waters, scrapbooks concerning Russia, Alaska, Canada, and cruises
of exploration by U.S. Navy ships, including the U.S.S. Rodgers. 7 vol. oversize. Included are photos of Waring and friends,
not bound in volumes.

Box 77

Scrapbooks.

Scope and Content Note

2 albums of photographs of Alaska and cruises in northern waters, scrapbooks concerning Russia, Alaska, Canada, and cruises
of exploration by U.S. Navy ships, including the U.S.S. Rodgers. 7 vol. oversize. Included are photos of Waring and friends,
not bound in volumes.

Papers of Cole Family Law Partnerships, 1887-1916

Correspondence and Papers of Cole Family Law Partnerships, 1896-1916

Box 44, Folder 1

Letters from Cole family law partnerships1896-1916

Physical Description: 6 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

The partnerships concerned are those of Cole and Cole, and Cole and Brown.

Box 44, Folder 2

Letters to Cole family law partnerships.1889-1916

Physical Description: 12 pieces.

Scope and Content Note

Letters concerning cases on the subjects of patents, lands, property, and claims.

Box 44, Folder 3

Manuscript legal notes concerning patents.n.d

Physical Description: 152 leaves.

Scope and Content Note

In holograph of Cornelius or Willoughby Cole.

Box 44, Folder 4

Printed case summaries and other documents.

Physical Description: 10 pieces.

Papers and Documents Relating to Cases Handled By Cole Family Law Partnerships, 1887-1916